This major requires 13 courses. Prerequisites do not add any additional courses. The bioethics major leads to a bachelor of arts degree and satisfies the humanities requirement of the Rochester Curriculum.

Key goals for this major:

• Provide students with the tools to think about the major ethical and related legal questions that arise in medicine and public health

• Understand the frameworks in which individual moral decisions should be made

• Understand the frameworks in which social and political moral decisions should be made

• Understand the most important controversies in bioethics

• Develop the tools to analyze moral arguments in bioethics

• Develop the tools to construct arguments that contribute to some of these debates